From grammar to meaning : the spontaneous logicality of language / edited by Ivano Caponigro, University of California, San Diego and Carlo Cecchetto, Universita degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca.

Here, prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning.

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Other Authors: Caponigro, Ivano, 1970- (Editor), Cecchetto, Carlo (Editor)
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Published: Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE University Press, 2013.
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520 |a Here, prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning. 
505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I From grammar to meaning: foundational issues; 1 Portrait of a semanticist as a young man:Gennaro Chierchia 1979-1988; 1. Chierchia's Ph. D.-student years: 1979-1983; 2. The assistant professor years: 1983-1988; Acknowledgments; 2 Notes on denotation and denoting; Part IIFrom grammar to meaning: formal developments, new findings, and challenges; 3 On the existential force of bare pluralsacross languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Bare plurals in Chierchia's neo-Carlsonian approach; 3. Indexical bare plurals. 
505 8 |a 3.1 Two types of indexical bare plurals3.2 Infelicitous indexical bare plurals; 4.A proposal: nom and ∃ in a system of ranked type shifts; 4.1 Extending the scope of Nom; 4.2 Partition-inducing bare plurals; 4.3 Some predictions for indexical bare plurals; 5. A more radical proposal: DKP modified; 5.1 Arguments against ∃ force for kind denoting bare plurals; 5.2 Bare plurals as definites over a widened domain; 5.3 Representative group readings; 6. Taking stock; 6.1 Scope matters; 6.2 Bare plurals and discourse; 6.3 Proper widening and variation in size; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgments. 
505 8 |a 4 Broaden your views, but try to stayfocused: a missing piece in the polarity system1. Introduction; 2. Epistemic indefinites in the polarity system: the role of alternatives; 2.1 Alternatives and exhaustification; 2.2 Variation among EIs: free choice inference; 2.3 Variation among EIs: NPI use; 3. Epistemic indefinites and focus: facts and issues; 3.1 Total variation and focus in downward-entailing contexts; 3.2 Partial variation and focus; 3.3 Irgendein and focus; 4. Further issues and concluding remarks; Acknowledgments; 5 On the free choice potential of epistemicand deontic modals. 
505 8 |a 1. Introduction2. Data in support of modal variability; 2.1 Romanian vreun; 2.2 Concessive scalar particles; 2.3 German irgendein; 2.4 Modal variability; 3. Semantic explanations for modal variability; 4. Contextual-variability of universal free choice; 5. Modal variability from pragmatic relevance; 6. Deontic and epistemic FC in discourse; 6.1 Modals in dynamic semantics; 6.2 Implicatures in dynamic semantics; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Appendix 5A Formal definitions supporting Section 6; 6Implicatures of modified numerals; 1. Introduction; 2. The problem. 
505 8 |a 2.1 Gricean reasoning and bare numerals2.2 The absence of implicatures with modified numerals; 3. Characterization of the problem; 3.1 Fox and Hackl's 2006 observation and a novel observation; 3.2 When are scalar implicatures generated?; 3.3 When are scalar implicatures not generated?; 3.4 The distribution of scalar implicatures for modified numerals; 4. Towards a generalization; 5. "Density" plus something else; 5.1 Similarities between at least n and more than n; 5.2 Embedding under negation; 6. The limits of two related accounts; 6.1 exactly n alternatives. 
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